1 [VN] [usually +adv./prep.] to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips:
to suck the juice from an orange * She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw. * He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger.
2 ~ (at, on) sth to keep sth in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue: [V, VN] She sucked on a mint. * She sucked a mint. * [VN] Stop sucking your thumb! * [V] The baby sucked at its mother's breast.
3 to take liquid, air, etc. out of sth: [VN, +adv./prep.] The pump sucks air out through the valve. * [VN-ADJ] Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
4 [VN+adv./prep.] to pull sb/sth with great force in a particular direction:
The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool. * The mud had sucked him in up to his waist.
5 (sth sucks) [V] (slang) used to say that sth is very bad:
Their new CD sucks.
IDIOMS
suck it and see (BrE, informal) used to say that the only way to know if sth is suitable is to try it
suck it up (AmE, informal) to accept sth bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions
moreatDRYadj., TEACH
PHRASALVERBS
suck sb in
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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